Green was the way to go at Sunday's Oscars, where our environment-activist movie star friends rolled up the red carpet in environement-friendly rides.
Global Green USA, an environmental group which has begun the green limousine campaign five years ago at the Oscars to raise awareness among the tens of millions of viewers worldwide about alternative fuel cars, energy independence and solutions to global warming, lined up 30 "green" cars to shuttle the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Davis Guggenheim, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary on global warming "An Inconvenient Truth," to the star-studded ceremony in Hollywood. Al Gore won by the way, for the "An Inconvenient Truth" as Best Documentary Feature.
"The past years we only worked with the hybrid cars and this year we really wanted to promote alternative fuels and different technologies that represent what's next," said Matt Petersen, chief executive of Global Green USA.
Other celebrities and notable individuals participating this year include: Penelope Cruz, Forest Whitaker, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Ryan Gosling, Gwyneth Paltrow, Al and Tipper Gore, Melissa Etheridge, Davis Guggenheim and Elisabeth Shue, Larry and Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, Lesley Chilcott.
DiCaprio has previously explained that the green-limo line at the Academy Awards is designed to "educate the public about climate change" while Cruz was quoted as saying in a statement on Global Green USA's website that "There are many simple things that we can all do such as driving greener cars." Yup, like making sure those exhaust parts and emission parts are in excellent shape.
While the ever popular plug-in Prius, an electric supercar, and Compressed Natural Gas vehicles were included in the green fleet, it was the two-seat, scarlet-colored prototype of the Tesla Roadster, invented and financed in Silicon Valley, that was the most coveted car and most drooled-over vehicle pulling up to the red carpet.
Yahoo News reports that 330 celebrities, including George Clooney have already signed up to buy the hot electric car that goes from 0 to 60 mph (0 to 100 kph) in four seconds -- "faster than most Porsches," Tesla Motors vice president Darryl Siry says.
Global Green USA, an environmental group which has begun the green limousine campaign five years ago at the Oscars to raise awareness among the tens of millions of viewers worldwide about alternative fuel cars, energy independence and solutions to global warming, lined up 30 "green" cars to shuttle the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Davis Guggenheim, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary on global warming "An Inconvenient Truth," to the star-studded ceremony in Hollywood. Al Gore won by the way, for the "An Inconvenient Truth" as Best Documentary Feature.
"The past years we only worked with the hybrid cars and this year we really wanted to promote alternative fuels and different technologies that represent what's next," said Matt Petersen, chief executive of Global Green USA.
Other celebrities and notable individuals participating this year include: Penelope Cruz, Forest Whitaker, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Ryan Gosling, Gwyneth Paltrow, Al and Tipper Gore, Melissa Etheridge, Davis Guggenheim and Elisabeth Shue, Larry and Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, Lesley Chilcott.
DiCaprio has previously explained that the green-limo line at the Academy Awards is designed to "educate the public about climate change" while Cruz was quoted as saying in a statement on Global Green USA's website that "There are many simple things that we can all do such as driving greener cars." Yup, like making sure those exhaust parts and emission parts are in excellent shape.
While the ever popular plug-in Prius, an electric supercar, and Compressed Natural Gas vehicles were included in the green fleet, it was the two-seat, scarlet-colored prototype of the Tesla Roadster, invented and financed in Silicon Valley, that was the most coveted car and most drooled-over vehicle pulling up to the red carpet.
Yahoo News reports that 330 celebrities, including George Clooney have already signed up to buy the hot electric car that goes from 0 to 60 mph (0 to 100 kph) in four seconds -- "faster than most Porsches," Tesla Motors vice president Darryl Siry says.
Production will reportedly begin later this year and the base price is $92,000, although the company also is working on a sedan that will cost between $50,000 and $65,000.
I wonder who got to drive the hot Tesla Roadster?